Key events
45 min: Sancho’s stepovers out on the left are dealt with by Atlético. Two minutes are added on.
44 min: Griezmann delivers an uncharacteristically poor free-kick that evades everyone in the box and goes out for a goal kick.
43 min: Atlético try and copy Dortmund, with Azpilicueta driving down the left and going down from a Ryerson challenge. The Dortmund right back goes in the book.
42 min: What a turnaround from Dortmund, whose gameplan is simple at the moment: pepper that left channel.
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Atlético Madrid (3-2 on aggregate)
It’s made on the left once again! There’s a neat bit of play out on that side that culminates with a neat reverse ball from Sabitzer which the driving Maatsen picks up. He launches himself into the box and rifles a low shot past Oblak. Simeone needs to sort his side out.
38 min: Dortmund have focused their attacks down that left-hand side all game and that’s where they formed that goal. The hosts are ascendant and Atlético look rather off it, struggling to get on the ball and make anything of it when they do have it.
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Atlético Madrid (2-2 on aggregate)
This tie is properly alive! Hummels dinks a wonderful ball into the box for Brandt to bring down on the left-hand side. He shifts the ball on to his left foot for a shot, from a tight angle, and powers it home past the despairing dive of Witsel and the efforts of Oblak.
31 min: Azpilicuta intercepts an attempted switch out to Ryerson. Hummels gets away with a pass at the back that’s hit straight at Griezmann.
30 min: Azpilicueta goes properly in on Adeyemi, and the Atlético defender gets a yellow for his efforts.
29 min: Sancho and Adeyemi have swapped flanks for Dortmund by the way.
27 min: Dortmund dominate the possession statistics at the moment and they nearly make something of it when Can slides a ball down the left for Sancho to run on to. He can’t play a killer ball into the middle or launch a shot, with the play ending after Sabitzer hits one over the bar.
26 min: Molina launches a decent cross from the right but it’s cleared and Füllkrug wins a free-kick in his own half as Dortmund counter.
24 min: De Paul looks as if he’s in danger of losing the ball in the centre circle before some nifty footwork gets him away. He proceeds to dink a ball over the top but the man running on to it is offside.
22 min: Hummels’ long punt down the ground can only find Oblak. The game’s struggled to find the energy it had in those first five minutes, when both sides looked a bit loose at the back.
20 min: Oblak just about deals with an awkward backpass from Molina after Dortmund press forward once again, with Brandt’s attempted through ball a touch light.
18 min: Ryerson dances down the right before his deflected cross eventually finds Adeyemi … whose shot flies into the safe hands of Oblak. Füllkrug is down in a bit of bother but it doesn’t look serious.
16 min: Dortmund’s corners don’t cause any serious damage, but they’re boxing in Atlético at the moment.
15 min: Adeyemi plays the ball to Brandt, inside the box, on the left, who pulls it back into the middle … but it’s cleared out for a corner.
13 min: Sancho gets on the end of a long ball from Hummels and dinks the ball into the middle … but the on-loan winger is offside.
12 min: Hummels clears a ball in from the right by Atlético, where the visitors were doing a good job of hassling Dortmund.
10 min: Adeyemi is penalised for a handball. He, by the way, was the man who did the hard work to set up Sabitzer a few minutes ago, driving down the left and sliding in the low ball for the central midfielder.
9 min: Atlético begin to look more comfortable with the ball, knocking it about for a sustained period.
7 min: Atlético have a corner and they go short before Griezmann dinks a ball into the mixer. Dortmund hold steady.
5 min: And now Morata finds himself with acres of space going forward and just the keeper to beat … and he dinks it wide! He also had to score. A mad start to this game.
3 min: Morata loses the ball and Dortmund press forward, with a ball from the left finding Sabitzer inside the box and just the keeper to beat … until Azpilicueta launches a goal-saving block. Sabitzer took an unnecessary first touch which cost him. He had to score!
2 min: Hummels intercepts at the back and tries to bypass the midfield with a through ball, but it’s cut out.
1 min: Dortmund see more of the ball in the opening exchanges, passing it around the back.
Peep!
Dortmund are in their standard yellow and black gear; Atlético rock a trendy blue number. The hosts kick off. Let’s play!
Just a couple of minutes away now, with the players out of the tunnel. Sort your snacks.
Mats Hummels gets a prezzie or two. The 2014 World Cup winner made his 500th appearance for Dortmund in the first leg last week, somehow squeezing a three-year spell at Bayern Munich in the middle of his career. A fine achievement.
Those huge yellow flags are out in force, forming that imposing wall of fans at the Westfalenstadion. Dortmund weren’t all that great in that first leg but, now, in front of their fans, they’re well in this tie. Simeone, of course, is here to try and spoil the party.
Here’s the full picture then. Lino, the match-winner last week, is suspended for Atlético, so in comes Hermoso as the only change from the side that played the first leg. Dortmund also make one change, with Brandt in for Nmecha.
Borussia Dortmund: Kobel, Ryerson, Hummels, Schlotterbeck,
Maatsen, Sabitzer, Can, Sancho, Brandt, Adeyemi, Füllkrug
Subs: Özcan, Nmecha, Reus, Duranville, Wolf, Moukoko, Süle, Meyer, Lotka, Wätjen, Bynoe-Gittens
Atlético Madrid: Oblak, Witsel, Giménez, Hermoso, Molina,
Llorente, Koke, De Paul, Azpilicueta, Morata, Griezmann
Subs: Moldovan, Gabriel, Saúl, Correa, Savić, Riquelme, Vermeeren,
Reinildo, Barrios, Gomis, Niño
The teams
Here they come …
If you’re in the mood for double-screening tonight, there’s this one to keep tabs on, too.
Preamble
Hello, hello, hello and welcome to coverage of Atlético Madrid’s trip to Westphalia. The visitors are chasing their first Champions League semi-final since 2017, when their deeply annoying and more successful step-siblings, Real, triumphed 4-2 on aggregate. Since then there have been two quarter-final exits for Diego Simeone’s side, unable to regain the lofty heights of two runners-up finishes from 2014 to 2016 (ugh, Real, just let them have one).
Atlético enter with a 2-1 advantage, but Borussia Dortmund remain hopeful after a late strike from Sébastien Haller in Madrid. The bad news for tonight’s hosts? They can’t call upon Haller for another vital goal, with the forward ruled out due to an ankle injury.
The reality for both sides is that they’re the underdogs in the last eight, both trying to make up for a lack of domestic happiness this year with a European journey that could still make its way to London this June. I’ll be here to see who’s left smiling at the end of the night. Kick-off’s at 8pm BST.
